Legend of BAGHDAD BATTERY, How Batteries Work
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Is Baghdad Battery from 2000 years ago… even a battery?
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#BaghdadBattery #PseudoScience - Věda a technologie
That transition after “come a little bit closer” 😂😂😂😂😂
Dan Shlemon 3:13 I lost it
I'm crying ..... of joy!
that is why i love this man! Pure comedy gold!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruh
Dude, that smash cut between him trying to woo that electron into him trying to generate a charge on that pvc KILLED ME.
Indeed
metaphorically*
That left me stunned for almost a full minute
*NO*
Im glad I wasnt the only one to notice that.
The so-called “Baghdad battery” is believed to be from the Sassanian Era, roughly 224 - 651 AD. The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt. Sticking through the asphalt is an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder.
The so-called “Baghdad battery” is not really a battery at all. We know this because it bears a very close resemblance to objects with an identifiable purpose found by a team of archaeologists from the University of Michigan in 1930 at the site of Seleukia, not far from Baghdad.
The objects found at Seleukia look almost just like the so-called “Baghdad battery,” but we know they were, in fact, used to hold papyrus scrolls because they all contained remnants of papyrus scrolls when they were excavated. The scroll-holders from Seleukia consist of a metal rod that the scroll could be wrapped around and a tube inside a ceramic pot that the scroll to be slid inside for protection.
Most likely, the so-called “Baghdad battery” is just a scroll container. The scroll was meant to be wrapped around the iron rod, slid inside the copper tube, and then slipped inside the ceramic container, which could then be sealed to protect the scroll inside. The acidic residue on the inside of the container most likely comes from the papyrus or parchment of the scroll that the pot once contained, since papyrus and parchment are both slightly acidic.
Eventually, the scroll decomposed, leaving the acidic residue behind.
Wow
So you are saying it was not a battery, but a capacitor?
Despite being the truth, it actually sounds even crazier than some ancient guy constructing a useless battery as a proof of concept. I mean, that's one convoluted way to store scrolls.
@@cliffmathew It was actually a FOOOL BRIDJ RECTIFIER. /j
@@elvancor It doesn't sound too different from regular 2 spindle scrolls (Like the ones used in Torahs). It's also lighter because you don't have 2 spindles and was less exposed to the elements.
3:12 "come a little bit closer" *shows mehdi scrubbing pipe viciously* 💀💀💀
3:13 this is such a genius cut!
@@gregdasav7401 lol
I'm weak!
that cracked me up immediately
erectron
@@heroninja1125😂
"Come a little bit closer" *HARD CUT TO PVC PIPE ACTION*
Made my kids ask me why i was laughing, haha.
I spat my coffee.
He's getting cheekier and cheekier as time goes by. .... :-)
I splatted my coffee everywhere when I saw that cut as it seems my mind put in a completely different set of imagery than what was actually displayed... I think I have a dirty set of connections in my electron-infused neurons!
.
I fuckin lost it
Spat my water, kek.
“I’m 100% sure I don’t know what it was for.” Basically me when somebody asks me about cars
I used to watch your skits and stuff way back whenever. Since then I've graduated college. I know all this stuff from studying physics but man the way you explain stuff is really cool. I bet these videos really help people learn a subject that most find confusing and complicated to the point of giving up, and that's great. Thank you for what you do, I will now binge your videos.
3:14 hands down the funniest cut I seen in my life 😂
bruh...
Viewer Rating almost jumped from "PG-13" to Triple "X".
Transition was Ingenious.
I laughed so much. Absolutely Genius.
LMFAO - it was great :-)
I'm just slowly continuing to laugh during the video
the tissues on the table makes it even better
3:11
i refuse to believe that the transition wasn't intentional XD
Me too, I paused the video just to come see what people are saying.
@@georgejames3868 same
@@georgejames3868 same
@@georgejames3868 same
@@georgejames3868 are we humans that much alike... Cause same
4:02 this is one of the best presentation of an electrolytic process I've ever seen. I liked that.
I really wondered if you really edit your own videos. Knowing this fact now makes me appreciate you and all your talent even more. Keep up the excellent public service Mehdi, love all your work!
Mehdi is busy he's going on love island to look for love 😂he's going by himself on a island with 100 women 😂
This "battery" is so useless he didn't even find a way to shock himself.
ElectroNoBoom
Which subject ElectroBOOM has studied?
Masters in Electrical engineering
Elecnoboom
@@suryadeepak8650 BSc? which subject?
6:42 I would have never guessed that that would be the voice that would come out of that person.
Damaged Industries omg same. i got so confused
Thats a moderately talented Indian guy duping foreigners into thinking that all the inventions of modern age are farce. Someday he will say Internet existed in those times. You dont believe me? Just search it on youtube with keyword as "India". There are actual evidences of people claiming this shit
czcams.com/video/4os5zIxGMNg/video.html
As many times as that dude has been punched in the throat for saying stupid shit? I'm surprised he's still making any sound.
That man could voice act as Gary Coleman
3:11 can we just take a moment to appreciate this transition
6:23. So all I need to do is put 24 giant Bagdad Batteries in series and repeat 1000 times in parallel and I don't need to buy a new car battery. Cool.
Its an artifact from 2000 years ago and he STILL manages to find a way to shock himself.
lmao
(also why does this comment have 300+ likes, but no comments?)
@@TrajceVasilev I dunno
@@maynardkeays2118 Watch it get 200+ comments now xd
@@TrajceVasilev Because we all know it's the truth
Impresive
6:45 I gotta be honest, I would never have expected him to sound like that in a million years
Asian Joe Pesci
@@karu6111 LOL
i first though medhi high pitched him to mock him
but the background noise was normal
Autism is rampant in Canada.
Raul Gajadhar yeh
I watched Mehdi last weekend for the first time. His basics videos are great! I love his sense of humor. Just great! Thanks Mehdi!
I actually have fun learning from you! Keep it up!
3:12 is the greatest cut I've seen in youtube history. Nearly killed me laughing.
Which subject ElectroBOOM has studied?
me too ahahahaahaha
didn't expect to see you here ^^
Caught me off guard. :)
@@daduck1810 na bro its electrobiology...
"This might seem like a good argument but it is actually a stupid argument."
Damn, can't argue with that.
"Arguing would be stupid" - mysterious indian youtube scientist.
@@WCIIIReiniger I’m pretty sure he is Iranian
@@lucydavie7688 his name looks indian but his accent is very weird
His science was just superior. It was impossible to win.
@@abisgamer4825 that guy is an Indian youtuber, who propogate pseudo science and false claim of Ancient Technology and thinks an ancient superior beings were there before us
That transition was legendary 🙌👌👏
You're gonna be SOOOO embarrassed when they find that ancient multimeter.
I'm waiting for them to find Tutankhamun's oscilloscope
@@SomeDork353 Did Keysight existed at that time?
Hahaha! Lolled so hard to this one!
Haha! Nice!
I’m waiting for them to find a whole ass ancient closed circuit
3:14 Holy shit did not expect that😂😂😂
Surprised he wasn't demonetized
Lmfao me either
@@michaelwang1730 I was surprised at that Magic Wand video that he didn't get demonetized for showing pictures of vibrators in the first minute of the video.
@@rohitchaoji I thought those were originally back massagers that people...misused
What's to funny about is
Where was this man when I was in high school!! I would have LOVED to have him as my science teacher!
I just found this channel, and Sir, I like your channel. You’re funny, charismatic, and teach in a way that everyone can understand.
😮
"How about you come a little bit closer?"
Segues to rubbing shaft vigorously
Should we take it that you were not successful in attracting the electron?
Lol😂😂
this is amazing
😂😂😂
I hope he doesn't get demonitised for that 😂
[Lewdness intensifies!]
Who cares about an ancient battery, the question at hand is: did they know about the FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER?!?!?!
A better, a very full Bridge rectifier.
Probably 7:08
hehe
+Tilen Ger. Imagine finding ancient carvings of a sine wave followed by an arrow pointing to what looks like rectified DC.
THE EARLIEST KNOWN FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER...
@@Arcana_XVIII it sounds like you've never heard of the MOAFBR
Just brilliant, no messing about, straight to the point and hilarious with it
You're one of my favorite and most entertaining CZcamsrs. I like to download information from the interwebs into my brain, and you have good data transfer speeds.
Rubbing his rod on CZcams after making flirty noises.
Swear to god, came down to comment this xD
Same lol, was like "that had to be on purpose right?"
It was clearly on purpose
Oh god
I laughed so hard😂
3:10 i love how after he talks to mrs negi, he starts stroking his rod
GuninGames I’m laughing so bad with this part
The timing is perfect
Indeed, we see what he did there... ^^
I caught that as well. He has some good sneaky comedy skills
this video is a complete masterpiece, from start to end, my favorite youtube video ever, and i am here since 2010 watching a lot of different stuff. This iranian guyis a legend
First time in a while I didn’t skip your little commercial like other CZcamsrs you funny as hell bruh
So, to conclude: The Tower of Babylon was a giant battery that powered Atlantis.
seems legit
No it powered the atmosphere shield for Atlantis.
I wanted to like your comment but I can't due to the other 69 guys who did that before me... So I'm commenting instead.
@@mikoajf.7549 you *are* a man of culture aswell.
I like the number of likes even after disrupting the golden number
that “no” at around 7:09 is now the transition slide to all my nightmares
Jake M. no
Jake M. No
Jake M. No
Jake M. No
No
Sir you are amazing, brilliant and best teacher.
This video KILLED me!! so funny mehdi you're a boss 😂 AND the awesome part is you learn in a very efficient funny way, keep it up.
Definitely a battery cell for their spaceships.
Yeah, they understood not to use good batteries because if they accidentally left one we'd know centuries later what it was. Pretty smart ancient aliens.
@@billybobjoe198 exactly.
I was thinking that too.
Yess to help Egyptians to make them pyramids
Na they used naquada generators. We all know this from stargate
1:34 when your friend says "120 volts of current"
thats like saying "ill meet you in 4 time"
69th like, nice
22 drug tests later I finally figured out this is real
Or radiation glows.
It doesn't.
Leave such a friend lol
6:34 He is Holding 3v Coin Cell To Power Up Led!!😶😶
This man makes the best advertisements I have ever seen on CZcams!
Man flirts with charges & rubs his pipe while arguing about ancient batteries.
All in one video, nonetheless.
I am in tears right now, that got me so good.
James May dose the same thing except he lives alone.
Wasif Ali r/technicallythetruth
Grow up peeps. 🙏🇨🇦❤️🙋
3:10 *After he done talking with mrs negi he starts stroking his rod*
of course we have to rub the rod after explaining negative attraction
It charged her up
Thanks btw on this video and others, im doing my master's right now and im learning about Lithium ion batteries and thought about seeing your videos to get a glimpse of what i can learn. Thanks again
I always find your calm zen like demeanor on the videos soothing 😄😄😄
"See, the battery actually is useful" said the guy arranging a room full of oversized heavily modified versions in series and using them to barely light a single LED.
:D
Also, there is no evidence of anything being electroplated, no evidence of ancient lightbulbs, no thin copper or tin wires. What good is a battery if you don't have wires?
Now, if they could produce high voltage, like +1000 V, ancient people could torture criminals. That would be useful.
@@louistournas120 My theory about this Bagdad batteries is that they were just pumps to pump the liquid out of the container similar to liquid soap containers.
Plus the energy available would quickly dissipate. These cells would have a very low capacity, because there's no guarantee that the ancient inventors had purified metals, nor ultra strong acids.
@@peterzingler6221 The liquid pumps industry takes deep offense to that. Back then noone knew how to build liquid pumps!
4:58 lol I love that infographic
Agree. Could watch that forever.
Same
Bop "deis"
When it jumped scenes and he was rubbing the pvc pipe? I nearly died 😂🤣
Electro boom we need you regularly!
3:08 - This part had me laughing really hard XD I don't know if it was accidental or not. Especially that you are using a pink towel :P
What a timing
comedic genius. I burst out laughing at this too.
Atleast he charged her up
Mhedi-pub 😂
Best transition ever
The batteries were used to charge up the alien ships duh.
Which subject ElectroBOOM has studied?
Sice aliens use very efficient tech that requires little current i'd say it's plausible....definetly
It's a special type of space magic electricity, duh
alien electric scooters*
@@rhtanvir3318 Electrical engineering
This has to be the best commercial for anything ever! It had thought provoking ideas :)
I... wanted so bad for someone to explain how batteries work at school.
All my physics teachers would say "a source of electricity such as a battery" and no one was actually able to explain the "how" of a battery...
The skit did wonders for me to understand this. Thank you!
In fact, the human body is also a chemical battery, but the energy storing in “electrolyte” that called Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Should have gone across the hall to the chemistry teachers for this one.
...
If you did and still didn't get an answer, your school just had crap teachers.
"I want to make you mine" Then pan to him stroking his pipe...LMAO..!!!
cut*
'his pipe'
That's what she said eh?
czcams.com/video/FrYaL6LNrfA/video.html
@@MA.ELECTRIC what the hell does that have to do with mr Electroboom rubbing his pipe?
3:11 i refuse to believe that transition was unintentional 😂😂
69 likes on your comment. Nice!
@@Dwonis lol dude 😂 i forgot i commented ..
@@Dwonis now im gona dislike my own cmmmt if someone made it 70
@@DEV-kx2uu i did it
@@ProGamer-ho7lz and now i have to dislike my own comment...
That transistion to him cleaning the pipe was fucking hilarious.
That transition after the "come a bit closer", day was made XD
Alternate title: "Iranian man roasts an ancient Iraqi invention for 10 minutes straight."
Basically jt wasnt arabic or iraqi...it was completely iranian !even The name baghdad is ancient persian ffs
@@amirhosseintb1521 r/woooosh
@@notverynice
r/ihavereddit HaHa UgAnDaN KeAnOu ChUnGs WhOlEsOmE 100
@@notverynice Oh awesome, is this Reddit now? 💯💯 🍑🍆 *takes off all my clothes and shits on the floor* 🅱️3️⃣🅿️ℹ️5️⃣‼️
@@amirhosseintb1521 if it wasn't Iraqi.. it wasn't Iranian either.
3:17 is the best laugh I had since a year 😂❤
I don’t know why but haven’t seen your channel for a while it’s good to catch up with you again… great video.
"I'm 100% sure I don't know what it was for."
Now if only all the "experts" could say this.... We would be much closer to finding it out!
4:58
Oi, anyone wants an extra electron?
Me me!
Boop
Laewlash splendid
*Don’t let iron man’s wife fool you*
One of the funniest and most informative video I've ever seen
Mehdi is a(n):
Electrical Engineer
Absolute Genius who “Safely” Shocks Himself
Comedian
Super Electric Man
DA REKTIFIYAH (many people said this)
ALL. IN. ONE.
Well he did actually almost die on his 1 million subscribers special.
Roman Derkach Yes, but he didn’t die.
He was saved by his “flimsy wire connections.”
Kane Games he is also the RECTIFIER
@@derkach7907 No he didn't.
No, we'd like to hear about ancient Tehran Turbines under the waterfall.
I'm really more interested in the Persian Pipelines than anything
Can we hear about the Syrian Semiconductors? I hear they used them to power their UFO's.
What about the Egyptian electrodes?
If only they had converged these technologies with Israeli Integrated circuits.
The real game-changer would be combining the Baghdad battery with the Lybian LED.
Not only super knowledgeable but also a genius film maker and entertainer. Awesome videos bro. Vaghean mahshare in video ha kare shoma vaghean doroste dast khosh dadash.
Thank You for this educational Video.
4:05 Simplest (not to mention most entertaining) explanation of how a battery works that I've ever seen.
If only these ancient people had a Keysight Oscilloscope.
This is brilliant thanks for giving me a laugh before I go to work 👍
Excellent presentation full of clever animations and hilarious comedy!! 🍻👍🇨🇦
3:08 meme material
pure material
Basically a new drake meme format with 3:08 in the top panel and 3:14 in the bottom
This guy is one of the best teachers I have ever seen.
I'm from Baghdad, greetings to you
i think this is my favorite video of yours. and to think, this was made right before the world got shut down because of a completely preventable disease. yet, you were this crazy already... awesome
I'd be okay with drinking "booger-flavored" tea if it meant it would cure cancer and world hunger, I don't know.
Me too! If I knew it actually did those stuff. I guess I would have to drink it first...
@@ElectroBOOM only way to be sure: drink everything that tastes like boogers
@@niksa28 So if I continue to double down on my bs people will eventually be FORCED to accept it as truth?
My boogers cure cancer and since ya'll are such nice people. I can send you some free of charge!
Just pay $35 for shipping!
I literally read this as I heard this.
8:30 "The may have made a battery but they didn't invent the battery ."Golden Words👍👍👍
There's a difference between making something and inventing something, even tho they made a rudimentary battery, there's no evidence that they did it because they knew it was what we consider today to be a battery, but having said that, today it would be a case for a nobel prize of science, the guys that won the nobel prize for discovering micro waves (not the machine but the electromagnetic waves) didn't knew what they were experiencing, just that something funny happened to their food when next to some antennas they were working.
Mansoor Khan shut up
@@yousifa4002 No u
This is so funny and not what I expected to find. Thank you lol
i wish you were one of my teachers at engineering school!
Okay, this was a solid take on the Baghdad battery i've not seen before. Also, your argument that perhaps the metals were placed in the wine to add flavor or healing properties....is not crazy. Copper, at the time, was known as "fire metal" and had symbolic importance.
👍
Hello bro, I love your channel and your videos
What is your source to claim that copper was known as "fire metal" at that time and in that region? And how exactly would that add flavor or "healing properties" in wine or vinegar?
That makes no sense at all.
7:18 when your friend says 5g is bad
Nah, it's 7:03 lol
Nah more like 2:19
@n k Evidence?
@n k Funny how you provided no actual sources. I know youtube is weird about links, but at least tell us the name of your source.
That creative ad placement got me to click that Link! Damn!😲
That was a really good video!
5:00 if my teachers would have explained me like this then I could have never missed my class😂😂😂
3:14 You all thinking what i'm thinking?
That's right. Science stuff.
That cut tho
me: nope
nobody: :)
Listened to him more than I listened to my science teachers through all my schooling
I am absolutely fascinated with OOParts and hope one day we can crack the mystery behind this and other ones and what they were *actually* intended for. We all know that this obviously wasn't intended to a battery, but it's way more fun to think this was a charging block for their ancient Sassanid spaceship or something equally ridiculous and funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I lost my shit at 3:08 to 3:13 omg that transition was awesome 😂😂😂
6:42 damn i wasn't expecting to hear that voice coming out of that person
@Khaffit Nope.
He is brilliant - I love his incites into the past.... genius builders.
@@pingpong9656 he doesn't conclude anything about good builders. For him, if it's a decent structure, it's the work of Gods and aliens. It's so stupid I can't even comprehend.
firdaus125 day ArGue tHat
I like your videos. please keep posting them
I absolutely love this channel
Someone: makes an insignificant argument
Electroboom and his godlike voice: *No*
3:13 I remember when I needed to do this in front of whole class.
And when teacher said "Faster".
😂😂
3:10 i love the hidden inuendo there
Rubbing that rod was epic 😂🤣
*Nobody* :
*Mehdi* : Flirts with electron
That's how he gets a buzz.
Mehdi *
3:12 I'm dead laughing 😂😂
bro im done JAJJAJAJAJAJJAJAJA